Dagupeños join “Walk for Life”

DAGUPAN City officials
and residents joined the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese in the “Walk for Life”
along the city streets on February 16.

Archbishop Socrates
Villegas, Mayor Belen T. Fernandez and Liga ng mga Barangay President Dean
Bryan Kua led the activity which was participated in by more than 1,200
Catholics and parishioners from Dagupan and Central Pangasinan.

Council of the Laity of
the Archdiocese president Von Ryan Torio said the activity demonstrates the
Church’s support for the sacredness of life.

The walk was highlighted
with a mass celebrated by Archbishop Villegas that followed.

In the same occasion, the
incorrupt heart relic of St. Camillus de Lellis, patron saint of the sick,
doctors, nurses and hospitals, visited the city where it was displayed at both
the St. John Evangelist Cathedral and Region 1 Medical Center for public
veneration. (CIO/Verdelle De Vera/CIO)